Level 7 Lesson 4 / like + N / -같이, -처럼

Do you know how to say that something is like something? Yes, you use the expressions -같아요. But how about when you want to say “to do” something “like something” (i.e. to walk like a robot)? You need to use -같이 or -처럼 to form an adverb. Listen to this lesson to find out more about these expressions!

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thank you for the lesson. I find the part where you point out the frequently made mistakes of foreigners learning korean especially helpful. I will watch out to make sure I don’t make the same mistake ^^

shiva

hi
My name is Shiva and I am an Iranian girl
Can be trained to teach the Korean language to Farsi
For those whom English is not good?
I love learning the Korean language , The Korean language is much better to take in the Persian for Persian
I hope you can help me to learn Korean language
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안녕

The sentence “그 사람은 한국어를 한국 사람처럼 잘해요.” as “He speaks Korean well like a Korean person.” isn’t properly translated in English. Instead of “well like” you would have to correctly say “as good as…”.

Further, the sentence “오늘은 일요일같은 월요일이에요” might work in Korean, but it doesn’t work in English. You wouldn’t say “Today is a Monday (that feels) like a Sunday” but merely / simply “Today is Monday, but it feels like (as if) it is [still] Sunday”.

Lastly “왜 집을 요새처럼 만들었어요? = Why did you make your house like a fortress?”, instead you would say “Why did you BUILD your house LOOKING/functioning like a fortress?” or simply “Why does your house look like a fortress?” or “Why is your house fortified (like a fortress)?”

Are you learning Korean or English? 🙂
What does it matter how it’s usually said in English? Besides, like in any other language, there’s many way to say the same thing.
I rather prefer the more literal translation, so you don’t have to guess what is what, and get used to make sentences that sounds better in Korean.

As for your “corrections”:

그 사람은 한국어를 한국 사람만큼 잘해요
오늘 월요일인데 아직도 일요일처럼 느껴져요
왜 집을 요새처럼 보여요?
왜 집을 요새 같아 보이는 걸로 건설했어요 / 지었어요? But this is like built from scratch… The idea in example is probably that it’s rearranged in such way that it looks like fortress now? Though I don’t know what’s house that looks like a fortress anyway,

Also I don’t know.. but 느끼다 not often used because it’s too direct, so just 같다/ 것 같다 is frequently used instead I think.

law

Hello Thank you for this lesson
I want to ask if this structure used with verbs I just saw -ㄴ 것 *^^* Thank you very much